Los Angeles 
HAS 



the most enjoyable climate 

in the world, "Month 

in, Month out, Year 

in. Year out." 



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Ask any one who has tried it 






Los Angeles 
Chamber of Commerce 

by 
Walter J. Ballard 



Los Angeles Has 

LOS ANGELES HAS a present popula- 
tion of 355,000, increasing at the rate 
of 25,000 a year. In the past ten years 
the total increase has been 253,000. 
LOS ANGELES HAS a present assessed 
property valuation of nearly $300,000,- 
000. 

LOS ANGELES HAS 1,850 manufactur- 
ing establishments, employing thirty 
million dollars capital, giving work to 
fifteen thousand workers, and turning 
out sixty-five million dollars worth of 
goods each year. 

LOS ANGELES HAS three transconti- 
nental railways connecting with every 
city, town, village, hamlet, and way 
station in the United States, Mexico, 
and Canada. 

LOS ANGELES HAS ajiarbor on the im- 
provement of whi'di the United States 
Government has spent millions and 
will gradually spend millions more ; a 
harbor through which will pass on tlie 
completion of its government, munici- 
pal and private improvements, aided 
by the opening in only five years hence 
of the American I'amima Canal, a 



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LOS ANGELES worships in 225 
churches, embracing all denominations 
of Christianity, Jewish and other 
religions. 

LOS ANGELES with its array of first- 
class hotels, modern apartment and 
rooming houses, its many up-to-date 
restaurants, and other places of public 
entertainment can (and does) enter- 
tain fully one hundred thousand visi- 
tors at any given time. 
LOS ANGELES HAS twenty-two parks 
— places of much natural and artificial 
beauty — one of which is the largest 
municipal park in the world, covering 
three thousand acres. 
LOS ANGELES IS building office build- 
ings, houses, stores, factories, ware- 
houses and other structures, to the 
value of almost twenty millions of 
dollars yearly. 

LOS ANGELES HAS a wholesale trade 
with itself. Southern California, 
Northern California, Arizona and 
parts of Mexico, Nevada, Idaho, New 
Mexico, other States and foreign 
countries, aggregating a value of fully 
three hundred millions of dollars 
yearly, including the shipments of 



Los Angeles Has 

LOS ANGELES HAS a present popula- 
tion of 355,000, increasing at the rate 
of 25,000 a year. In the past ten years 
the total increase has been 253,000. 
LOS ANGELES HAS a present asses.serl 
property valuation of nearly $300,000,- 
000. 

LOS ANGELES HAS 1,850 manufactur- 
ing establishments, employing thirty 
million dollars capital, giving work to 
fifteen thousand workers, and turning 
out sixty-five million dollars worth of 
goods each year. 

LOS ANGELES HAS three transconti- 
nental railways connecting with every 
city, town, village, hamlet, and way 
station in the United States, Mexico, 
and Canada. 

LOS ANGELES HAS ^jiarbor on the im- 
provement of whic'li the United States 
Government has spent millions and 
will gradually spend millions more ; a 
harbor through which will pass on tlie 
com])letion of its government, munici- 
pal and ]irivate improvements, aided 
by the o]x"ning in only five years hence 
of the American Tanrima Canal, a 



large share of the yearly seven hun- 
dred and fifty million dollar trade 
between the United States, the Orient, 
and the Far East ; a harbor which is 
already the greatest lumber receiving- 
port of the United States. 
LOS ANGELES HAS city and interurban 
electric railway systems, operating 
nearly a thousand miles of track, the 
cars of which pass through the down- 
town streets of the city at the average 
rate of about two a minute during six- 
teen hours of each day, Sundays and 
holidays included. 

LOS ANGELES HAS the best system of 
electric street lighting of any city on 
either side of the Atlantic or the 
Pacific ; it also has more business and 
residence electric lighting than has an}- 
other city on this continent or in 
Europe. 

LOS ANGELES HAS 37 banking institu- 
tions, with $23,000,000 paid in capital 
and surplus; $120,000,000 deposits: 
and yearly bank clearings in 1909 of 
$675,000,000, an increase over 1908 of 
$150,000,000. 

LOS ANGELES in addition to its pres- 
ent water-system is completing a new 



system which at a cost of $23,000,000, 
will bring a whole river of sparkling 
mountain water to its doors, over a 
natural filtration course of 240 miles ; 
a system which will also produce a 
large volume of hydro-electric power, 
by the sale of which at low cost, the 
diversified manufacturing industries of 
the city will be largely increased. 
LOS ANGELES HAS the first call on the 
great oil-fields of Southern California 
— the most prolific oil-fields in the 
world, producing already nearly sixty 
million barrels yearly. 
LOS ANGELES IS telephonically 
served by two companies, whose sub- 
scribers aggregate seventy thousand — 
or one telephone for each five per.sons 
(men, women and children), in the 
city. The increase in service keejiing 
pace with the constant and large in- 
crease in population. 

LOS ANGELES HAS 113 public sch'jol 

buildings ; with 50,000 pupils, and 
1,300 teachers; a State Normal School, 
two high schools and 35 public and 
private colleges and other institutions 
of higher education. 



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LOS ANGELES worships in 225 
clmrclies, eniljracing all denominations 
of Christianity, Jewish and other 
religions. 

LOS ANGELES with its array of first- 
class hotels, modern apartment and 
rooming houses, its many up-to-date 
restaurants, and other places of public 
entertainment can (and does) enter- 
tain fully one hundred thousand visi- 
tors at any given time. 
LOS ANGELES HAS twenty-two parks 
— places of much natural and artificial 
lieauty— one of which is the largest 
nuniicipal park in the world, covering 
three thousand acres. 
LOS ANGELES IS building office build- 
ings, houses, stores, factories, ware- 
houses and other structures, to the 
value of almost tweiUy millions of 
dollars yearly. 

LOS ANGELES HAS a wholesale trade 
with itself. Southern California, 
Northern (."alifornia. .\rizona and 
parts of Mexico, Nevada, fdaho. New 
Mexico, other States and foreign 
coniUries, aggregating a value of fully 
three hunilred millions of dollars 
yearly, inehuling the shipments of 



fruits, wines, beans, olives, lumber, 
oil, etc. 

LOS ANGELES HAS at least fifty 
theatres, moving picture exhibitions, 
concert halls and places of public 
amusement, all in nightly session, and 
many also in daily session. 
LOS ANGELES IS surrounded, all with- 
in twenty to forty minutes access by 
electric car, with a galaxy of seaside 
and mountain resorts, orange groves, 
flower gardens, suburban residential 
sections of great beauty, interesting 
"Missions," ostrich farms, good roads 
under construction in the county to 
cost $3,500,000, attractive cities and 
towns — notably Pasadena the beautiful 
"Crown of the Valley," famous for its 
natural beauty and its many "million- 
aire" homes. 

LOS ANGELES HAS the best summer 
climate in the world. 



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Los Angeles 
HAS 

the most enjoyable climate 

in the world, "Month 

in, Month out, Year 

in, Year out." 

Ask any one who has tried it 

Los Angeles 
Chamber of Commerce 

by 
Walter J. Ballard 



021 929 697 



fruits, wines, beans, olives, lumber, 
oil, etc. 

LOS ANGELES HAS at least fifty 
theatres, moving picture exhibitions, 
concert halls and places of public 
amusement, all in nightly session, and 
many also in daily session. 

LOS ANGELES IS surrounded, all with- 
in twenty to forty minutes access by 
electric car, with a galaxy of seaside 
and mountain resorts, orange groves, 
flower gardens, suburban residential 
sections of great beauty, interesting 
"Missions," ostrich farms, good roads 
under construction in the county to 
cost $3,500,000, attractive cities and 
towns — notably Pasadena the beautiful 
''Crown of the Valley," famous for its 
natural beauty and its many "million- 
aire" homes. 

LOS ANGELES HAS the best summer 
climate in the world. 



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